Mario, Mario... that Noir Pandora box once more !
As you know the "hardcore" school will only call noir films
from a certain period of time. Which I totally disagree as
you also know, as films genres evolves. Then others admit the
noir filiation by the content and not strictly by formalism.
That's where I and others are when examining the continuity
of crime/mystery films until our present days. Maybe calling
these modern films (appearing after the fifties)
"neo-noir" could conciliate both approaches?
But then I'm not totally for this idea, as I should prefer to
call
"neo-noir" a breed of films appearing during the end of the
80s, during the 90s and still existing today.These last types
of films are often closer to the spirit of the B series of
the 40s an 50s by the relative freedom of scripts and
filming, leading to fast, violent, dark films with stories
close to nihilism. They are mostly American color movies, and
generally with more substance than the Tarantino films.
I'm not sure this helps ...
PS: I agree with you: Payback sucks and Gibson should be
better in a zoo, as discussed here previously. Point Blank by
Boorman stays a top film, a milestone in the evolution of
noir/HB films. That's the one I paid to see in a theater,
long long ago.
E. Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
Mario Taboada :
>Just saw Point Blank (it was years...) and Blow Up (I
had
>seen it more recently). Great films, both. PB
is
>hardboiled, BU is noir -- did you guys ever wonder
what the
>difference was?
>
>
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